(Your organisation administrator will need to specifically share those files with you for you to see them in your team drives folder.) Your Google Drive will appear on your desktop like your normal hard drive.Ħ, Inside your ‘Google Drive’ will be your own Drive (‘My Drive”) which is for your own files, plus a “team drive” folder where you will find any files that shared by your organisation. You need to sign in to a G-suite account set up by your workplace, your own business or a not for profit organisation.ĥ. Note – this is not a normal Gmail email account. A little icon will appear in your menu bar, click on it like the picture below.Ĥ. Go to your applications folder and run the ‘Google File Stream’ application. Here’s how to install Google File Stream.ġ, Download the installer ‘googlefilestream.dmg’ from here: ģ. To use Google File Stream you need to have access to a G-suite account. (With dropbox any items you place into dropbox are moved there (not copied) and your dropbox folder is backed up to time machine.) It also means they are not backed up to your time machine backup. This means that items you place into your Google Drive are copied there rather than moved.

Is it different to dropbox in that it appears on your computer as a separate hard disk (like a thumb drive would) rather than inside a folder. This is similar to dropbox in that it is an external cloud storage solution. It mounts your Google Drive as a hard drive onto your desktop, and then OSX treats it like any other hard drive.

It allows you to sync a G-Suite Google Drive with your Macintosh computer. The application that you need to run on your computer to give you access to all this is called Google File Stream.

So you can set up various teams, put people in those teams, and any files placed in a folder for that team will be automatically shared with the users of that team. It also has a clever permission system where certain folders can be shared with members of teams. A G-suite account includes 30GB of Google Drive space free to each user. Many businesses have a G-Suite account, Google give them to non for profit organisations for free.

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